Folklore and the fantastic in nineteenth-century British fiction

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248 pages 2016

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The author argues that the tension between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folklore fiction.

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